Module1 Life of the future

阅读导学案

使用方法：自主阅读P2-3课文，然后尝试完成下面的练习。作完后，自行查阅教材进行答案校对。

Ⅰ. 汉译英填空

What will the city of the future look like? No one knows __________（确切的） , and making predictions is _____________（一件很冒险的事）. But one thing is certain – they are going to get bigger before they get smaller. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earth’s natural resources _________ （枯竭）. We will use lots of recycled materials, such as plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, wood and paper, and we will waste fewer _________________（自然资源）. We will also have to rely more on alternative energy, such as solar and wind power. All this seems certain, but there are plenty of things about city life in the future which are not certain. To find out what young people think about the future of urban life, a teacher at a university in Texas in the United States asked his students to think how they would _________（管理）a city of 50,000 people in the year 2025. Here are some of the ideas they had: Garbage ships：To ___________ （摆脱） garbage problems, the city will load huge spaceships with waste materials and send them towards the sun, preventing landfill and environmental problems. Batman Nets Police will arrest criminals by firing nets instead of guns. Forget smoking No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors. Forget the malls In the future all shopping will be done online, and catalogues will have voice commands to place orders. Telephones for life Everyone will be given a telephone number __________（一出生） that will never change no matter where they live. Recreation All forms of recreation, such as cinemas, bowling, softball, concerts and others, will be provided __________________（免费） by the city. Cars All cars will be ____________ （充电） by electricity, solar energy or wind, and it will be possible to change the colour of cars at the flick of a switch. Telesurgery Distance surgery will become common as doctors _____________（实施） operations from thousands of miles away, with each city having its own telesurgery outpatient clinic. Holidays at home Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras _______________（固定在 ）their head. Space travel Travelling in space by ordinary citizens will be common. Each city will have its own spaceport.

Ⅱ. 语法填空

Cultural Corner  Famous Last Words

  Not all predictions come true. Many of them are wrong, and some are very wrong. Here are just a few of the bad predictions people ______1______(make)in the twentieth century about the twenty-first century:

 AIRPLANES    "No ______2_____(fly) machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."

Orville Wright, 1908.   

COMPUTERS "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Waston, chairman of IBM, 1943.

CLOTHES  "Thirty years from now people will be wearing clothes made of paper which they will be able to throw away after ______3_____(wear) them two or three times."

  Changing Times Magazine, 1957.

MEN ON THE MOON   "With the first moon colonies ______4_______(predict) for the 1970's,  work is now ____5____ progress on the types of building _____6___(require) for men to stay in when they're on the moon."

Arnold B. Barach in The Changes to Come, 1962.

THE BEATLES  "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is ___7___ the way out." 

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

ROBOTS IN THE HOUSE   "By the year 2000, _________8________(housewife) will probably have a robot shaped like a box with one large eye on the top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for ____9_____(move) about."

New York Times, 1966.

KEYS  "By the mid-1980's no one will ever need ___10_____ hide a key under the doormat again, because there won't be any keys."

III. 课文重点句型翻译:

1. 未来的城市将会是什么样子呢？没有人确切的了解，预测也是一件很冒险的事。

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2. 在未来，爱护环境将会很重要，因为地球的资源濒临枯竭。

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3. 在未来的城市范围内将禁止戒烟，只有在郊外和户外才允许吸烟。

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4.年长的市民和残疾人通过使用绑在头上的高新技术相机可以周游世界。

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答案

自主阅读导学案

Ⅰ: 汉译英填空

1. for sure 2. a risky business 3.run out 4.natural resources 5.run

6. get rid of 7.at birth 8.free of charge 9. powered 10.carry out

11.attach to

Ⅱ: 语法填空

1. made 2. flying 3.wearing 4. predicted 5.in

6. required 7. on 8. housewives 9.moving 10.to

III. 课文重点句型翻译:

1. What will the city of the future look like? No one knows for sure, and making predictions is a risky business.

2. In the future, care for the environment will become very important as earth’s natural resources run out.

3. No smoking will be allowed within a future city’s limits. Smoking will be possible only outside cities, and outdoors.

4. Senior citizens and people with disabilities will be able to go anywhere in the world using high-tech cameras attached to their head.

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